Chapter 4: Shall I feel special now?

Hours later the whole record company was filled with only two souls. Gabriella felt exhausted as she walked into the cafeteria to make herself a cup of tea. But she couldn't stop working, because she had so much to plan.

She had to reorganize every single document, because the last assistant appearantly didn't work here long enough to organize events and everything else chronically. It was a lot of work!

And she could do the work from here, instead of doing it at home. The brunette wanted to seperate work from home. She didn't want to turn into one of those people, who takes their work home.

At 10 p.m. her boss was still working as well. Troy Bolton had been in Hawaii the last two weeks. Vacation time he badly needed; at least that's what Ashley told her. She was a very nice woman at the age of twenty three. Gabriella herself was twenty two and her boss was twenty four.

The Montez woman couldn't help but feel attracted to her boss. Maybe it was because he was so incredibly good looking; or maybe it was because dating him would be breaking the rules... Or maybe it was both.

But Gabriella was good at hiding her emotions; she always had been. She learned that in the drama department back in High School. She was a good actress. That's why she was so good at handling four boyfriends at the same time.

She knew who she was meeting and when. She was good at hiding her feelings, she was good at ignoring them... But she kind of didn't want to when she saw her boss. Gosh, why did he have to be so hot?

Troy Bolton was sitting in his office, starring at the view of Los Angeles at night. No one knew where he had been in those two weeks of vacation. He told his step sister that he went to Hawaii; no one knew he was in prison. He visited his best friend in New Mexico. Chad got into prison because of illegaly transporting drugs. But Chad never took drugs. Not even alcohol. Someone else put it into his luggage, and at the airport he got busted.

For a $1,000 bail, Troy got his best friend out of prison and erased the incident for another $20,000. After all, spending one million in only two weeks was even a lot for Troy.

He was wealthy, but he never had to get one of his friends out of prison; let alone his best friend. On top of it, Chad was an elite football player, so everyone would have noticed that he was missing, if he was gone for more than one week.

Trurth be told, he rather would have been in Hawaii instead of getting his best friend out of prison.

In two weeks he had missed a lot. He needed to get back on track with all the artist. He needed to make sure every single contract was still okay, and he needed to get through all of the applications... It was a lot of work to get back on track in Hollywood.

And then... Then there was Gabriella Montez on his mind. He couldn't get her out of his mind! He kept on thinking about her the whole day. Although he tried to get her as far away from him as possible.

Gabriella Montez drank out her last cup of tea for the night. She stared out of the window, sitting in her office. Los Angeles was so beautiful at night. She still couldn't believe that she now lived in L.A. Only months ago she was still at Princeton University. Only months ago she was partying every single night,and waking up in a stranger's bed the next morning.

Only months ago she was a college student, but now she was actually an employee. Even though it was a lame job, doors would open up for her when she finished one year. And those doors would make her dream come true. Those doors would enable her to work as a producer and writer instead of bringing someone coffee and being on the phone the whole time.

But it was worth it. Every single minute was worth it. She would do anything to get one step closer to her dream.

Gabriella switched off her iMac as she felt her eyelids getting heavier. She was ready for bed. And hopefully this time her own bed.

She grabbed her purse and switched off the lights as she left Wilson's records. She was the last one in the building; or so she thought.

She walked into the elevator and pushed P for paking lot. As the doors were closing, she heard a familiar voice crying to hold the doors open. The voice she had heard all day. But she didn't see the matching face. Somehow, Troy avoided her; or at least that was her impression. So, once again, she did what she was ordered to do. After all when he said to jump; she asked how high.

"Thanks." Troy Bolton said as he reached the elevator.

"No problem, Mr. Bolton." Gabriella said smiling.

"I think you can call me Troy when no one else is around."

"Shall I feel special now?" she asked him, wondering if she was crossing a line here. Or if he already did.

He shrugged, "Whatever flatters you, Miss Montez."

"Look, you are my boss."

"I know that."

"And I am your employee." Gabriella continued explaining as the elevator doors closed, "And what we did last night was inappropriate."

"Really, was it? Because according to you I was..." Troy said looking straight into the brunette's eyes. She had such beautiful eyes... There, she was doing it again. She was seducing him without even doing anything.

"It may have been not so bad, but it was absolutely out of line."

"Out of line, you say?"

"Yes. We shouldn't turn it into something more frequent." Gabriella said, catching her air. She should stay focused. She should stay away from him. But why does she feel so attracted to this wonderful man then?

"Does that mean we won't or-"

Gabriella kissed him. Out of the blue she kissed him passionatly. "So now we have something to remember." she answered after the kiss.

He scanned her, ignoring all of his stupid rules.

"Stop looking at me like that." she said, frowning

"Like what?"

"Like you've seen me naked."

"But I have and I liked what I saw."

Gabriella turned her head away and stared at the closed elevator doors, "I am your assistant. You are my boss. I am a horrible girlfriend and you are probably an amazing boyfriend. You have your dream job, while I still have to fight to get closer to mine. Whatever that was earlier, its not good for neither of us."

"Then why did you kiss me?" he asked her and stepped closer to her.

She turned around and looked directly into his icy blue eyes. Then she shrugged. "No reason."

"Bullshit. You know the reason." he said staring into her eyes.

Gabriella shook her head, "I am your assistant. You're my-"

"Boss. I know. But can't we just forget it for a second?" he said, running his fingers through his sandy brown hair.

"I wish you weren't my boss and I weren't your assistant. Because then-" Troy interrupted the brunette by kissing her.

She returned his kiss and felt his hand brushing through her dark brown locks. Suddenly she felt the lust taking control of her - like the night before. She started to unbutton his white chemise. She wanted him right here, right now. And Troy didn't disagree; he pushed the STOP button.

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Xoxo Nic